Canadian healthcare and community leaders (Ottawa, June 2019)
OTTAWA CONFERENCE & EVENT CENTRE | Ottawa, Canada
Join over 600 healthcare, community, social care, policy and research colleagues this June in Ottawa for Community Health Connections 2019, co-hosted by the Canadian Association of Community Health Centres and the Alliance for Healthier Communities.
Early bird registration rates until April 26
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In addition to inspiring plenary sessions, poster sessions, tours of local Community Health Centres and other networking opportunities, Community Health Connections 2019 offers a compelling series of workshop sessions. Here is a small sample.
Advancing an action plan for community-led primary health care in rural communities
Rural communities in Canada face common challenges related to socio-economic development, sustainability, and access to health and social services. This workshop will describe these challenges and why Community Health Centres are a powerful solution for rural communities. Experiences and lessons will be shared from rural Community Health Centres in Canada and the United States, with insights on how the U.S. national network of rural CHCs has improve health, vitality, and economic development in rural America. Areas of interaction in the workshop include sharing resources and tools for rural CHCs, and discussion around developing a Canada-wide rural CHCs strategy with support from municipal, provincial, and federal governments. SPEAKERS:
Raymond Babowicz - Director of Communications, Government Relations, and Marketing, Community Health Center of the North Country (Canton, New York)
Lorraine Burch - General Manager, Our Health Centre (Chester, Nova Scotia)
Lyn Linton – Executive Director, Gateway Community Health Centre (Tweed, Ontario)
Julia Swedak - Director of Quality and Knowledge Management, Gateway Community Health Centre (Tweed, Ontario)
Scott Wolfe - Executive Director, Canadian Association of Community Health Centres (Toronto, Ontario)
Digital Health Futures: Advancing person-centred, tech-powered innovation in community health Can healthcare technology help bring person-centred health care closer to home? Join a dynamic conversation about the technology-fueled innovations... from personalized electronic medical records to biomonitoring to mood-lifting chatbots... that could, with an equity lens, support a revolution in community health care. SPEAKERS:
Nancy Lefebre - Senior Vice President & Chief Clinical Executive, Saint Elizabeth Healthcare (Markham, Ontario)
Rodney Burns - Chief Information Officer, Alliance for Healthier Communities (Toronto, Ontario)
Social Prescribing Boot Camp
Social prescribing is a specially structured way for family physicians, nurse practitioners and other care providers to refer people to a range of local, non-clinical services. It complements clinical treatments and seeks to address people’s needs in a holistic way. This asset-based approach goes beyond treating illnesses. Originally developed in the U.K., social prescribing is taking the mainstream media and public by storm and is gaining international recognition. Hear from early adopter Community Health Centres and how they’ve adapted social prescribing to their local contexts, evaluated the impacts, and added value by better integrating the social and clinical parts of primary care practice. SPEAKERS:
Meghan Shanahan Thain - Social Worker, Belleville and Quinte West Community Health Centre (Belleville, Ontario)
Stephanie Skelding - Systems Navigator, West Elgin Community Health Centre (West Lorne, Ontario)
Family Physician (TBC) - Centretown Community Health Centre (Ottawa, Ontario)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A data partnership to gather insights for CHCs COPD is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality and an important issue for Community Health Centres (CHCs) across Canada. This session will share lessons from a partnership between the Alliance for Healthier Communities and the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The partners used structured CHC data, linked to hospital data, to learn more about the characteristics of COPD clients and their care, as well as about client flow to/from hospital. We will also give examples of data standards to produce quality data for this type of analysis. SPEAKERS:
Mary Byrnes - Manager of Primary Health Care Information, Canadian Institute for Health Information (Toronto, Ontario)
Jennifer Rayner - Director of Research and Evaluation, Alliance for Healthier Communities (Toronto, Ontario)
Advancing a pan-Canadian strategy for Francophone and Acadian community-led primary health care Access to community-centred primary health care “for and by” Francophone and Acadian communities is vital, yet it can take years of advocacy and community leadership to achieve and requires continued vigilance and collective action. Far too few Francophone and Acadian communities across Canada have access to these services, and many existing French-language Community Health Centres are under pressure due to an erosion of policy and funding for French-language services. What kind of planning, engagement and advocacy are needed to achieve progress? How can the experiences of existing French-language CHCs help other communities in need of the community-led model? How can we work in partnership at federal, provincial and municipal levels? Participate in dialogue and in planning next steps for a strong Canada-wide strategy. SPEAKERS:
Marc Bisson - Directeur général, Centre de santé communautaire de l’Estrie (Cornwall, Ontario)
Janice Bilodeau - Directrice générale, Centre de santé de Clare (Centre-de-Meteghan, Nouvelle-Écosse)
Monique Constant - Directrice générale, Centre de santé Saint Boniface (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Jocelyne Maxwell - Directrice générale, Centre de santé communautaire du Témiskaming (New Liskeard, Ontario)
Caroline Vézina - Directrice de la programmation, Société Santé en français (Ottawa, Ontario)
Demonstrating community impact using data: Experience from the Choose Health self-management program
South Riverdale Community Health Centre (Toronto, Ontario)
Connect 2 Care (C2C): Coordinating care for vulnerable populations with complex needs and high acute care use
CUPS Calgary and Connect 2 Care Mobile Outreach Team (Calgary, Alberta)
The Navigator Program: Fostering a sense of belonging for caregivers of a child with medical complexity and stimulating transformative change
Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre and Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, Ontario)
People Accessing Care Teams (PACT) in a marginalized community: Connecting solo family physicians’ patients with complex care needs to the wrap around services of a Community Health Centre
Black Creek Community Health Centre (Toronto, Ontario)
Addressing the acute primary needs of Syrian refugees immediately after arrival to Canada
Somerset West Community Health Centre and University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine (Ottawa, Ontario)
Team-based care among marginalized people who use drugs in Ottawa, Canada
Bruyere Research Institute; ICES; Ottawa Hospital Research Institute; McGill University School of Social Work; Sandy Hill Community Health Centre; Ottawa Public Health; PROUD Community Advisory Committee; Drug Users Advocacy League; B.C. Centres for Disease Control; Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital; University of Toronto (Pan-Canadian collaborative)
Multicultural Health Workers: Lessons from Community Health Centres and partners across Canada
Umbrella Multicultural Health Cooperative (New Westminster, British Columbia)
Improving social inclusion and quality of life through integrated health, housing, food security, and wellness programming: The Alex CHC steps it up
The Alex Community Health Centre (Calgary, Alberta)
Feasibility of a lay patient navigator in primary care to improve access to resources in the community (ARC)
Bruyere Research Institute and Somerset West Community Health Centre (Ottawa, Ontario)
Bringing psychiatry to a rural community through telemedicine: The telepsychiatry collaborative care project
City of Kawartha Lakes Community Health Centre (Kawartha Lakes, Ontario) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto, Ontario)
Transgender peer support: Experience and evidence from Klinic’s Transhealth Program
Klinic Community Health (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Local business and service agencies working together to improve support for vulnerable community members: Centretown CHC’s Bank St. Initiative
Centretown Community Health Centre (Ottawa, Ontario)
Lessons from a palliative care program for Indigenous community members
Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre (London, Ontario)
Pioneering integrated interdisciplinary paediatric services for children in Thorncliffe Park through multisectoral partnerships and collaboration
Flemingdon Health Centre / Health Access Thorncliffe Park (Toronto, Ontario)
Development of Canada’s first centralized & standardized equipment process for home visits and births
Women’s Health Clnic (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Pathway Project: Helping those most in need find a primary care provider
Centre de Sante St. Boniface (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
Experiences from a Nurse Practitioner-led rapid access addictions clinic
Waterloo Region Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic and Cambridge NP-Led RAAC (Cambridge, Ontario)
Ferry Dependent, Self Reliant: A rural, island community takes charge of its own health
Gabriola Community Health Centre; Island Health; Rural and Remote Division of Family Practice; People for Healthy Community (Gabriola Island, British Columbia)
Recruiting client/family advisors with significant social barriers to health to be members of a person and family-centred care committee
Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities (Scarborough, Ontario)
Pushing sedentary behavior back a minute at a time: A peer-based strategy to boost physical activity in older adults
TAIBU Community Health Centre (Scarborough, Ontario)
COPD Action Plan: A multi-pronged approach to reducing hospital admissions for patients with respiratory disease
Windsor-Essex Community Health Centre (Windsor, Ontario)
Using experience-based design to achieve the Quadruple Aim at level of primary care: A qualitative study
Kingston Health Link; Rural Hastings Health Link (Kingston, Ontario)
Investigation of the social role of a collective kitchen for single older adults
Trent University Department of Psychology (Peterborough, Ontario)
Context-appropriate evaluation in community health promotion: Mission possible?
Alliance for Healthier Communities; York University Environmental Studies Program; Health Nexus (Toronto, Ontario)
